Job 31:23
For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
In Context
22let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.
24If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;
Cross References
Job 13:11shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
Job 42:5I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now my eye has seen you.
Joel 1:15Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:17-24
Job's Compassion to the Poor. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I… Read the whole commentary →